“The Man Who Lived Underground,” a novel publishers rejected in the 1940s, is about an innocent Black man forced to confess to the murder of a white couple.“The Man Who Lived Underground,” a novel publishers rejected in the 1940s, is about an innocent Black man forced to confess to the murder of a white couple.Read MoreBooks and Literature, Wright, Richard, The Man Who Lived Underground (Book), Black People, Writing and Writers, Content Type: Personal Profile, Book Trade and Publishing, Manuscripts, Library of America, Laymon, Kiese, Native Son (Book), Wright, Julia
